Determine relationship of supporting details to main idea
Objective summary
Comparisons, analogies and categories
Analyze word choice
Understand figurative, connotative and technical meanings
Allusions
structure of a paragraph
Development and refining of key concepts
Point of View
Purpose
Conflicting points of view
Evaluate uses of different mediums
Evaluate argument
Compare texts with different points of view
Read:
Letters written by Civil War Soldiers
Northern Newspaper reports of the war versus Southern Newspaper reports.
Articles from “The Atlantic Monthly” (One of Dickinson’s favorites)
The Drumbeat
PRM Text: Lesson 10 and 11
Formative Assessment: PMR Text Unit five Practice Test
Development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience
Planning, editing, revising
Use technology to produce and publish writing
Collaboration
Write argument
Introduce claims from opposing view points
Organize reasons and evidence logically
Use accurate and credible sources
Clarify relationships among claims, counter claims, reasons and evidence
Formal style
Concluding statement
1. Task Definition
2. Information seeking strategies
3. Location and Access
4. Use of information
5. Sythesis
6. Evaluation
PRM Text: Argumentative Writing P. 148
Summative Assessment: Have students choose a topic that is relevant to the study of early American History but has implications today.
For Example:
Is war necessary?
Should all American’s have the right to own guns?
Should public schools include prayer and the celebration of holidays into their school day?
SL.8.1, SL.8.5, SL.8.6
SL.8.3
SL.8.4
Speaking and Listening
Engage in collaborative discussions
Expressing ideas clearly
Use researched material during discussions
Set goals
Meet deadlines
Follow discussion protocol
Pose relevant questions
Respond to others
Qualify and justify views
Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations
Adapt speech to audience and purpose
Delineate a speakers arguments and claims
Use of relevant evidence, valid reasoning and well chosen detail
Eye contact, volume and pronunciation
Impromptu Speeches
Listening Exercises: Brain Games
Have two students choose the same topic for their argumentative paper and then debate.
L.8.1, L.8.2, L.8.3, L.8.4, L.8.5, L.8.6
Language
Use of standard English in writing and speaking
Explain the function of verbals ( Gerunds, participles and infinitives
Use verbs in passive and active voice
Use verbs in indicative, imperative, interrogative conditional and subjunctive mood
Use correct Capitalization, punctuation and spelling
Use coma, ellipsis and dash
Use verbs in the conditional and subjunctive mood
Determine the meaning of a word by using a range of strategies
Using context clues
Use common Greek and Latin affixes and roots to understand meaning
Know how to use dictionaries, glossaries and thesauruses to clarify meaning, determine pronunciation and part of speech
Figurative language
Figures of speech
Use grade appropriate vocabulary
Deep Revision Techniques: Write a letter from one source to another, Write a poem or an ode to your topic, Write a section in first person point of view, Word Funeral, Graph it out.
PRM Text: Lesson 12 and 13
Use of appropriate English will be assessed through writing and speaking activities and assessments. Formative Assessment: PRM Text Unit 6 Practice Test
RL.8.9
- Read: Read: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain
“Dare to be Dickinson”“I Hear BLMS Singing”
RI.8.8,
RI.8.9
- Read:
Letters written by Civil War SoldiersNorthern Newspaper reports of the war versus Southern Newspaper reports.
Articles from “The Atlantic Monthly” (One of Dickinson’s favorites)
The Drumbeat
W.8.1,
W8.8
2. Information seeking strategies
3. Location and Access
4. Use of information
5. Sythesis
6. Evaluation
For Example:
Is war necessary?
Should all American’s have the right to own guns?
Should public schools include prayer and the celebration of holidays into their school day?
SL.8.3
SL.8.4
Formative Assessment: PRM Text Unit 6 Practice Test